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>> and good evening everyone. >> we'll start in a san francisco intersection. the traffic signals confusing and a ticket if you get it wrong is infuriateing. dryer drivers are puzzled making a lefthand turn and the pan handle area of golden gate park. abc 7 news is there live to explain what the problem is. >> the city efforts made it more confusing for drivers and if you can see four different traffic lights and interest is no wonder, drivers say the camera in between them is writing so many tickets. on a sunny day, san francisco pan handle is filled with sun bathers, roller bladers and skateboards. it's also filled with cars. this is where is one of the
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city's dangerous intersections. there is a no left turn arrow for drivers then in january there is this at the flood of angry phone calls began. >> i made a left turn it took a picture of me. >> karen was one of six people showing up to fight the $420 ticket issued by that camera. and the mta says this camera cranks out 500 tickets per month, one every hour from 7:00 in the morning until 11:00 at night. >> i think it's about money. >> joey asked a cherk to show video of the violation. >> i don't see the red light its hard to see. >> drivers say that is the problem. the green right for bikes they say the dim red arrow gets lost in the clutter its thoord see it carlos gonzales says he
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didn't see it until being halfway through the intersection. >> they need to put a sign there. >> turns out mta is listening. >> we're putting in a new sign to let people know this is a no turn signal there. >> the spokesman says he wants to make something clear. this isn't about money. >> this is not a revenue measure this is to make sure streets are as safe as possible. in this live picture you can see mta has done to make it ease year they've installed a great over the signals sou can't see it from the streelgts streets. and in san francisco abc 7 news. >> thank you. >> what could be a big break tonight in the search for sierra lamar who disappeared two month ss ago. investigators looking for a red volkswagon jetta similar
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to this one. and and we're live with the developments. >> i'm standing in an area where that red car was spotted the day this ordeal began and her family told investigators they don't recognize the car detectives believe it's something to do with the disappearance. the search for sierra lamar is approaching the second month. now, a solid lead. the family says the car resembling this one is giving new hope. >> i know that everybody out there is going to do everything possible to report the sighting of the car. >> this is a description of the car investigators want to find. it's a mid 1990s red jetta. four door was a black hood. and there is surveillance video and eye witnesses that put the car near her home and near where her cell phone and
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purse were found. >> this is more than one source. it's a combination of rez den skpshl business cameras as well as bus cameras. >> the 15-year-old disappeared from her home the morning of march 16th. community volunteers helped with search efforts. and now news of the car is traveling fast. >> i squft heard the police are looking for a red sedan. >> i think it's best news we've heard so far. >> and blacks are common but a red would stick out. >> in addiction the black hood is a modified feature her father hope that's will trigger tip autos anyone if thon a body shop and remember doing that on a car again that is useful information. >> investigators aren't saying if this tape reveals a car's license plate number or who may have been in the car. >> we can't tell who is inside. but it was -- it's more than
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just a coyens yens. it's something detectives are asking for help now. >> if you can help there are several ways you can share information with the detectives just go to our web site and one other developments in this case to pass along to you. new today the crime lab analysis on two items of interest empty boxes and handcuffs and two used condoms has come back and they've been ruled out as having any involvement in this case. >> what appeared to be a routine arrest turned out to be more patrol officer as rested a 23-year-old after they said they spotted him rolling a mayor cigarette in the car. police report finding 100 grams of pot enough for 200 joints. that is not all. investigators went to his
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house and found an arsenal of firearms including an uzi ak 47, as well as more pot and 25,000s ndz cash. >> a swimmer had to be rescued from san francisco bay today. pictures show how two men dove into the water trying to swim to shore the other began waving and calling for help. rescuer arrived within minutes and brought him to shore. this is where a man a year ago. their water rescue certificate ficks expired. >> uc berkeley hoping an occupy encampment would be gone nouchl occupiers ignored requests to clear out over the weekend meaning expect a confrontation. and laura anthony is live with occupy the farm. >> there are two sides of an exchanging propose yalz.
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jufts twoin minutes i'm told occupiers had a meeting and have come up with a proposal they hope to deliver to the university this evening. and we've talked with one researcher who is anxious to get in here and plant her crops. >> we're asking and looking for new variety autos for 30 years researchers planted her corn here on the 10 acre plot. and this season there are more than a few people and tents in her way. >> we normally plant june 1. it takes a couple weeks to get ready. i feel like this is the last week i've asked them to pack up and leave. think they've made their point. and rather than packing up it looks like just another day with little hint they plan to move aside so researchers can move in. >> there are ongoing communication was researchers
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and we have done our best to steward the land in the appropriate way and we think the highest use of farm land is farming and we're committed to that vision. >> last week members of occupy met with administration to exchange views and both sides say reports of a saturday deadline for the encampment were overblown. >> we told them we hope and expected to have a response by saturday night. we're disappointed we didn't get it according to cal spokesman the university is open to continued dialogue. and in short term wants them to go. so the researchers can start preparing soil to get crops in. >> i don't feel like they're upfront about like what they want to do. we're still in duxs about how sit we're going to respond to them. >> the door remains open for a peaceful resolution of what's happening down there. but they understand that needs
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to mean ending the encampment. >> we're told occupiers did come up with a proposal a counter proposal to the university prose poseal. the university promised occupiers a seat at the table if you will but they say the current situation the encampment sun acceptable. >> oracle suffered a major set back today in its interelection twal property lawsuit against google. the jury agrewed oracle infringed on patents but could not agree whether google was protected by fair use doctrine. providing limited exceptions to the protections. legal analysts say the decision makes it difficult now for oracle to win major damages after today's verdict google asked a judge to toss
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the suit out of court. >> facebook is hitting the road in search of friends. this is to convince large investors why they should snap up stock. david louie explains how this work autos facebook top executives on the east coast doing what is called a road show meeting to answer questions about ipo. and this is one of the best known venture capitolists. >> it's a big deal. people going in are going make money. and question is, how much. and how fast. >> and facebook has gone public with a half hour video onlining social network's strengths and vision autos we make decisions at facebook not optimizing for what is go togs happen in the next year but what is going to set us up to be in this world where every pro duct experience is social
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and that is powered by facebook. >> facebook has to sell itself to instigs yugsal investor autos they're not going to have the same deep level of expert ease so there is a base level education process that has to occur. >> scott sulers knows one question that will come up. >> why is it last reported quarter was disappointing? this is a first time he's going to have to be tap dancing a little bit. >> analysts say investor confidence will depend on whether it can operate in china and how it handles privacy concerns. >> that is where i think things could get confused after becoming public. they try to comply to different countries by which they operate. >> the road show continues between now and ipo scheduled for a week from friday.
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>> we're keeping a watch on the dog mauling incident. the victim is a 2-year-old girl. the fog is now in custody. >> why are the marin county rangers banned from carrying guns? a former ranger weighs in. >> an airline passenger pays for extra leg room but doesn't get it. ahead airline won't refund the money until i hello. hello?
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2-year-old child. >> we believe the dog is a breed of pit bull. we showed you the home where it happened. police fire and animal control are all there. >> just minutes ago they brought out the dog and animal control officer walked it from the door into the house to a waiting truck. so the dog was not put down. >> the girl is alive but has wounds on the face head and legs. she's been transported by helicopter to childrens' hospital in oakland. and no word on who might own the dog. we'll continue keeping you up to date on this. >> a retired north bay ranger is talking tonight because his former colleagues are not allowed to. he's worried about the safety of the marin water district rangers and people they protect since guns were taken away. >> we have more on the story. >> and the water rangers story was last week but and to ask
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them how they feel be being unarmed and then we're contacted by a retired ranger who is free from those restill under constructions constructions -- restrictions. >> the alleged board stripped the rangers of their weapons in 2003 saying low crime rate didn't warrant them. and there are rangers patrolling the mount tam water shed. >> it's a scary place to be. >> it's a beautiful open space but it's also the perfect soil climate and hiding praise for large scale marijuana growing operations. backed by the violent mexican drug cartel who have shown they have guns and aren't afraid to use them barker says lesser criminals turn up who could also pose a threat to rangers and public safety.
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and he was never able to convince the board. >> one of the district directors referred to it as a cathedral. so you perceive that it was like going to church when you went there. so only good people go to church. >> barker says after the board took kep weapons they contracted with the sheriff's department for two armed deputies but it's a lot of territory for them and four unarmed rangers a fifth chief ranger has mostly administrative duty autos we haven't seen incidents up there that say we need to arm immediate light general manager stresses the rangers never take on pot grower as lone wex asked about a chance encounter. >> it's possible for anyone of our users and rangers. and anyone. >> what is the down side.
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>> he says he feels so far all of the arguments for and against has been based more on emotion than fact. he and the chief ranger have been studying how similar agencies handle the questions and expects the board to mick a decision one way or another within a year. we were unable to reach board members for comments. >> and there is maybe difficult but it was warm out there. >> yes i'm going to call it warm tomorrow. >> we have several locations hitting 90 degrees so pretty warm. there is a live view from mount tam camera. and there is clear skies just a slight hint of just fainting fog trying to come back there but it's not there yet. there are blue skies and mild conditions. let's take a look at our looping close up satellite image to show how coastal fog
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was swept away today and there are sunny skies coast to inland. we have highs of 90 degrees in yu kaia and livermore there are upper 80s only 63 in half moon bay. 27 degree range from the coastal toinland highs. there is mid-80s inland locations and 87 now in los gatos so warm inland and will be slow to cool down tonight. fog returning overnight. another warm day and cooler in all areas on wednesday. there is a jet stream flowing well north dominating our weather. we do have a cool down coming up wednesday this cold front and cooler pool of air approaches us. there is mild with lows into
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low 50s and there are inland loks that will see lows dropping to upper 40s. there is some fog at the coast burning away by mid morning hours. sunny skies from coast to inland. highs from 60s on the coast to upper 80s again into warmest locations. and there are highs 87 in san jose. 88 in campbell. 89 in los gatos. peninsula 79 in san mateo. low to mid-80s to mountain view. low to mid-60s on the coast. downtown san francisco there are highs of 72 tomorrow. 64 into the sunset district. there is near east bay highs from 76 in berkeley and 82 in fremont. highs into upper 80s and concord pittsburgh and pleasanton.
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91 in brentwood. there are mid-70s near the bay. here is the accu-weather forecast. there is low 80s inland. then we start to warm up again highs back up to 90s inland. mid-80s around the bay aichl lovely week and weekend. >> sure is. >> coming up next what could be the mother of all fire season autos does cal fire have the budge
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ull involved in a dog mauling tonight. we're going to show you animal control walking into the house there it s the dog has not been put down. >> the victim is a 2-year-old girl with wounds on her face head and legs. she has been taken to childrens hospital oakland. police are still on the scene of the house near rose lane and there is no word yet on what led up to this attack. >> california's officials worried the dry winter will make the fire season one of the worst on record. there is cal fire had to battle 800 wildfires from january to a the department must also dweel a $80 million budget cut meaning 700 fewer firefighters this year and fewer bulldozers and air tankers. cal fire says homeowners will
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not be left to fend for them self autos we use specialists to help us anticipate and will staff accordingly. >> officials are urging rural homeowners to create a defensible space and prepare an emergency plan. >> there is three quarters of a sent skpri counting. now, visitors can take in history with views. a bridge pavilion opens tomorrow inside there is a history of the bridge. outside there are new larger areas for picture taking. and. >> this is a teaching back drop. science, engineering and math. construction. there is a lot to tell about the golden gate bridge. >> this is a lot bigger than expected. so we're going to walk across
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it. >> this bridge district says 10 million people visit every year. not drive across bust visit it. >> 10 million. remarkable. >> and when we come back tonight same-sex marriage. becoming a political hot potato again but may come back to haunt democrat autos expensive offering advanced placement courses a controversial money saving plan for one of the best schools. >> the giants reliever out more than half of the season. for an offense committed before. stay with us. another half hour of news is in just a moment.
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ential politics. vice president biden ignited the debate over the weekend and today the secretary of education weighed in. abc 7 news joins us now with
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the latest on the issue. >> it's clear the white house would like to put this on the back burner but yesterday on meet the press the vice president said he's fine with same-sex marriage. yesterday, joe biden said this. >> i am comfortable with the fact that men marrying men and women marrying women are entitled to the same rights and liberties. >> today the education secretary asked does he support same-sex marriage? >> yes. i do. >> but the president is vague. >> my feelings about this are evolving i struggle with this. >> today the press secretary struggled. >> he is saying i have nothing new for you on that. his position is what it was. and that is wf records to personal few. >> bruce cane said the administration is trying to
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thread a needle. >> what the obama administration would like to say is that president is opposed to gay marriage but views are. >> i solving. >> in other words the president would lake to neutralize the issue in swing states where supporting same-sex marriage could hurt him. >> it's a cake and eat it too strategy. often you can't get away with that particularly if it's very salient. >> some people said the president should follow biden's lead. >> yes. absolutely. >> and others said winning reelection owe ought to be a priority. >> it's politic autos at lgbt community center. >> if you don't agree he's more supportive than any of the other candidates. >> the other presidential confident with the best shot today was straight forward in his response. >> my view is that marriage is a relationship between a man
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and a woman. that is the position i've had sometime. and i don't intond make any adjustments at this point. >> and pals show a majority of americans support same-sex marriage but you'll find a majority of african americans and seniors do not support gay marriage z both groups are important to the president's reelection chances. there is a reasonable explanation on why hoiz position is still evolving. >> san francisco school district found a way to cut $1.5 million from its budget. and abc 7 news has the latest battle between the district there are five periods in a classroom and one so called prep time. someone teaching an ap course has only four periods gets two hours of prep time.
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and they want to eliminate the extra hour its to be able to set up laboratories grade essays and work with students who need help. >> but while she's on second prep another teacher takes her place costing money. the district says eliminating that will save $1.5 kblinl. >> we have to hire more teachers so there are 145 ap teachers so there is he he -- equivalent of 24 additional teachers. >> saying because they're so demanding they need extra preparation time. students in san francisco will take 3,000 ap exams over two weeks giving a chance to bypass these classes in college. >> this is by having credits ready, aps are a good way for
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students with low incomes to really get a step up. >> the district is offering a $1,000 stipend. >> we're not in it for money. and to increase our salary by a thousand dollars. >> the district says it doesn't have enough money to cover everything. >> like any family budget have you to start going through different items. >> a strike vote is scheduled for all san francisco teachers this thursday. >> and tonight's money matters changing landscape of the video game industry. electronic arts said it will layoff a number of ploimys and spend $40 million to restructure as it confronts the competition. and intel says wilt raise to
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22 cents per share. the third time it's increased payouts. wall street took a wait and see attitude on elections in france and greece and could stir up the debt crisis once again. and a bankruptcy judge gave kodak perm dwroigs shut down it's online photo service in july. if you have an account you'll be getting instructions on how to switch to shutter fly. >> this year's fortune 500 list is out. because oil prices are so high exxon mobile bumped walmart out of first place this year. general motors is number five. and had it been based on profits apple would have been number one it's 17th behind hewlett-packard. wells fargo and internel made
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the list as well. >> still coming up a historic ship carved out of mothballs to make a final voyage.
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if you're in the right place at the right time you saw a piece of world history leaving the bay area. >> there is instrumental in allowing admiral bird to reach the south pole for the first
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time ever. >> here is wayne freedman on the last voyage of the glacier and the man still hoping to save her. ben flew across the country for one more look. >> there are mixed emotion autos a path to the remnants of what used to be the naval ship yard. >> like a ghost town. >> like this old vessel he came to visit. the once proud ship known as the glacier. next stop a scrap yard in brownsville, texas. >> this looks the same? >> different than it was. since 1960. >> this is a story best told with movie film shot in the middle of the 20th century. it was state of the art and there is a hull perfect for breaking through 20 foot ice.
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men told her -- the navigator. >> this is the last ship in the world to charter unknown coasts. >> the penguins represent 33 trips to the ant arctic exploring the last far reaches of the planet. in real life ben runs a computer company and cannot spare the $5 million he says could save the glacier and turn near a museum. that will take clout. >> it's a long shot. and this is up to a few senators to make a move. >> it did not come this day. he could only watch as glaicher moved closer to the end. >> an allied recycling they did prep work staffs sees sentiment from former sailors almost every day. >> a lot of people here that is their first home away from
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home they left home joined military. and their first ship they're on means something to them. >> if you can go on board where would you go? >> i go wo go to the bridge. i would go to the ward room and my cabin autos instead he will go to brownsville meeting the glacier there. >> we're still fit fighting. and i'm not going give up until the torch hits the steel. >> i've done all i can do. >> from vallejo wayne freedman abc 7 news. >> and so what does it take to get extra leg room these days? >> this makes a difference. up next a woman who gave her money to an airline that won't give it back. stay with us.
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>> there are planes more crowded these days and some passengers like to upgrade their seats. >> and as one woman found out paying more isn't a guarantee of getting more. >> there is this woman take
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kaim to me when the airline sold her a premium seat then didn't give it to her and won't give her money back either. >> it was all third class and expensive. >> nancy was a pan am stewards in 1950s when they were still called stewardses. passengers were king. >> they were treated beautifully. and food was wonderful. and i mean 45 people on an airplane. a lot of leg room. >> things sure have changed. today, extra leg room costs extra money, however nancy was willing to pay that fee recently. you see she was going on a very very long trip to a remote place on earth. antarctica. >> i needed to put my legs up and wiggle. >> she had to fly to bun yos airs first so delta offered her this seat for extra $120 she'd get four extra inches
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and seat back would recline 50% more. >> yes. thinking i'm going to get a huge big seat like on pan am. >> however she got on the flight she says the seat was narrow and barry reclined. flight attendants said there were no other seats. she sat cramped 12 hours. >> if you wanted to cross your legs you had to make efforts to get your legs up and over. so there is no way you can sit up. you couldn't have the tray out. >> it contrasted sharply with her final destination. but the only civil saigs belongs to these penguin autos pengiuns galore. >> the trip worth the long haul but she got back home nancy told delta she wanted a refund for leg room she didn't get. >> the kept saying sorry about this. sorry but we will give you a
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voucher. >> and delta only offered sky miles or credit towards a few tour flight. nancy wanted her money back. >> i felt they owd me what i paid for. >> we contacted delta and within days an agent sent her this e mail saying the concern you shared with kgotv have been sent to my attention. there may have been something we overlooked and delta will refund the $120. the airline tells us delta regrets that this situation occurred and is worked with the customer to resolve this issue. >> thank you to kgo and michael finney. >> delta did not explain why nancy didn't get the leg room paid for or a refund and said it's against company policy to discuss customer cases. now if you have a consumer problem let me know about it.
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and do you know what? it's not against our policy. >> yes. good work michael. >> thank you. >> and that is is back to update the forecast. warm. >> it's my policy to give you all weather details. you don't have to write to michael. he enjoys hearing from you. sunny day at cliff house there is a is warmth. 93 chico. 98 at palm springs. 8 los angeles 74 big sur here in the bay area another warm day. there are temperatures inland and reaching to 90 degrees in clover dale. there is 88 morgan hill. there is the accu-weather forecast. there is coast to inland
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wednesday there is a warming trend by sunday back up to 90 degrees inland. mid-80s around the bay. happy mother's day. >> yes. summer like. >> yes. >> thank you very much. >> up next our mike shumann takes on a table tennis champ. >> yes. she's on the u.s. olympic team. shu isn't.
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clçkçkçk join me tonight at 9:00. coming up then how the cia foiled an al qaeda bomb under wear plot against the united states. the question tonight would the under wear upgrade have gotten through airport security? >> shrimp boy talks. the one time enforcer of chinatown's gang says he is a new man but police aren't so sure. >> and now on to giants baseball. >> there is bad news for giants. >> and their bull pen. >> yes. >> and this particular situation is something we haven't seen a lot of lately. there is baseball cleaning itself up. giants opening tonight in l.a.. there is a hole in the pull ben -- bull pen.
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according to the commissioners office mota tested positive for a drug that can be used to burn fat and build muscle mass. he's struggled with giants and no word yet on who giants will call up to replace him in the pen. the team saying the giants ever disappointed to learn of the suspension. and baseball suspended philly's pitcher five games for deliberately hitting rookie brice harper in the back. after the game he admitted this is his old school way of welcoming a highly-touted rookie. and this is batter stuff. one after the mazing catches you'll see. pineor league game saturday. there they both go over the wall.
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and there is a ball up and made the catch of. he's got it. he took away a home run. that is unbelievable. last year we profiled san jose's arielle shing youngest woman in hist troy win national table tennis championship this, year she's accomplished another goal. >> arielle shing is a table tennis phenom. and accomplished yet another goal. >> going to the olympics so i'm excited about that. >> she's so focused in the finals she didn't realize she'd won. >> just one point at a time. so what i did win it wasn't sure i won. i checked to make sure i won.
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>> her parents can't believe it. >> this is a dream we're not sure would come true or not. now it's time to believe it at 8 years old she wrote down a goal of being an olympian. >> i convinced myself if i opened it my wish come true. >> pressure is off now that she's made the team. >> i think she's going to play with more joy and abandon then she normally does. and i think she'll go out swinging. >> the chinese dominate but areiie faced them. >> that was fun. i got my butt kicked but it was fun. >> she plans on enjoying the
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experience. >> and really excited to meet other players from different sports and make new friendship autos anyone in particular? >> i'd love to meet michael phelpps but who won't right? >> my motto is if there is a 1% chance i'll put in 100% effort. >> i wouldn't count her out oo. look out wonderful personality. she's got a 100% chance of beating shu. >> he said i didn't see it. >> and that is this edition of abc 7 news you can join the could be r conversation about the under wear bomb seized by the cia. >> from all of us here, thanks for watching. >> good night.
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